Pondělí červen 30, 2008

My First Conference Presentation

The yesterday's weekend was a very rewarding one. I spent all of my time relaxing in the swimming pool as I was enjoying the end of the OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008, where me, Robert Malovec and Ales Cernosek presented about Translation of OpenSolaris.

It was my first conference presentation and even though I got very nervous a few hours before the start, I felt much better while I was on stage. My presentation took about 20 minutes, Robert then went on with the demo of the proposed community translation model. I was very happy to see the demo going smooth, because we all were afraid of it not working at all. But Lukas Machacek did a good job of making it all work that day.

When Robert immediately translated part of the cal command-line application, the audience was apparently impressed. The number of questions asked at the end was overwhelming and we had to admit that some questions were hard to answer, esp. those about the future of the Community Translation Interface (CTI) pilot ("If this is just an experiment, when will we see the final version?") and the acceptance of the OpenSolaris community ("Do you think the community will accept this solution?"). There were also other questions related to the current translations available in Linux ("Why don't you get the existing Linux translations and reuse them in OpenSolaris?") and the current state of OpenSolaris internationalization ("How will you localize the many applications with no internationalization support in OpenSolaris?"). I have realized that we had concentrated on making the demo working but didn't think about the project as a whole. But since this really was just a proof of concept, now it would be the good time to resolve all other issues.

For those of you who didn't make it to the conference, here are some useful links:

• Translation of OpenSolaris Presentation
  The presentation has 28 slides in PDF format.

• OSDevCon 2008 Pictures by Jim Grisanzio
  Thanks to Jim Grisanzio for taking 120 wonderful pictures with his Canon EOS 30D.

• Community Translation Interface
  This is the experimental version of the on-line translation editor used for the community translation model.

• Pootle
  The current translation model utilizes Pootle, an open-source multi-platform web application written in Python.

— VI 30 2008, 07:09:31 odp. CEST Permalink Comments [1]

Středa červen 04, 2008

Contribute to OpenSolaris and Win $1,000,000

Sun sponsors the Community Innovation Award, which recognizes and rewards innovative uses of OpenSolaris, with 1 million USD. You don't need to be a programmer to contribute to OpenSolaris and win a prize. Just look at the Community Innovations Award Program and choose, which of the six open-source communities you can to contribute to. If it is OpenSolaris, see the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program for more information, including description of the prizes, FAQ, official rules and so on. And remember: the deadline for joining the contest is June 14, 2008. Only 10 days to go!

— VI 04 2008, 05:22:18 odp. CEST Permalink

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